semelle
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,572
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
semelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de cuir, de caoutchouc, qui fait le dessous d’une chaussure, d’une botte, d’une pantoufle. Pronounced \sə.mɛl\. Often confused with Séville and semence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for semelle is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.mɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,572 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for semelle, with forms such as "esmelle", "seemlle", and "semele". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Séville", "semence", "semoule", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is semelle, spelled S-E-M-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de cuir, de caoutchouc, qui fait le dessous d’une chaussure, d’une botte, d’une pantoufle.
- 2Pièce de cuir, de caoutchouc, qui fait le dessous d’une chaussure, d’une botte, d’une pantoufle.
- 3Pièce de cuir, de caoutchouc, qui fait le dessous d’une chaussure, d’une botte, d’une pantoufle.
- 4Pied, longueur d’un pied.
- 5Pièce de bois couchée horizontalement sous le pied d’un étai, ou servant d’entrait dans un comble.
- 6Pièces de bois plates qu’on met sous un corps pesant pour servir à le faire glisser.
- 7Plateau de bois très épais, qui se place entre les deux flasques d’un affût, et sur lequel le canon repose.
- 8Viande très dure à mâcher ou trop cuite.
- 9Partie lisse d'un ski en contact avec la neige pour faciliter son glissement.
- 10Jeu d’enfants consistant à toucher alternativement avec la plante du pied, la terre puis le pied de son partenaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esmelle,seemlle,semele,semelel,semlele,semmelle,smeelle,ssemelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "semelle"
Frequency rank: #20,572 in French
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